Negotiating hospital infections: The debate between ecological balance and eradication strategies in British hospitals, 1947-1969.

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    • Subject Terms:
      HOSPITALS; ANTIBIOTICS; MICROBIAL ecology; MICROBIOLOGY; HISTORY of medicine; COMMUNICABLE diseases
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED Kingdom
    • Abstract:
      The article discusses the changing conceptions related to the function British hospitals performed the period from 1947 to 1969, particularly regarding the utilization of antibiotics. The author outlines the differing perceptions of antibiotics between the clinical staff in hospitals who utilized them and the microbiologists who developed them. According to the author, the former group came to view the relevance of antibiotics in terms of the effects that they had on patients individually, while the microbiologists focused more on issues of ecology and relationship to other areas of medicine.